Meaning of farm out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.
   idiomatic, transitive
2. To clear or clean out; empty out.
   Northern-England

Examples

“Near-synonym: sub out”

“These companies are simply paper companies . . . they farm out the contracts to the real builders.”

“The summer of 1976 founnd Jacqui at the Pied Piper in Provincetown doing disco seven nights a week. Come fall, Jacqui farmed out her talents to four separate gay bars — three in Boston and one in Tyngsboro, Mass.”

“The U.S. military had hoped to farm out the Bagram detainees to prisons run by Afghanistan and other nations.”

“Farm out the stable and pigsty.”

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